Poll - Sherwood - got rid

[ciggiesnbeer]

Oh go on then. If we have to take a gamble with Klopp or Ancellotti then I suppose we must. Wheel them in.

[dave.woodhall]

Wasn't that because most wanted Clough? I was 4 at the time so am purely going by what i've read and heard.

And then some. The Evening Mail poll at the time (back when such things were representative rather than a magnet for idiots) had Clough on 93%, Sir Alf on 4% and I think Gordon Jago was third. Saunders hardly got a mention.

[Legion]

Gordon Jago?

[dave shelley]

When it comes to showing my football knowledge credentials, may I own up to being one of the 98% that didn't want Ron Saunders as Villa manager.  Neither did I think Peter Withe was a good signing at the time he signed.  Brilliant me.

[villan from luton]

Sometimes a manager is a perfect fit for a club - look at Pardew now compared to everywhere else.

and your perfect manager is?

No idea. Very often you don't know you've got him until he's there; Ron Saunders was probably the second-most unpopular appointment in our history.

Really?

Success at Norwich, failure at Man City but far better prospect than Vic Crowe

And wanted by something like 2% of supporters at the time.

I totally agree, his appointment was not well received, most thought we may get Brian Clough.

[dave.woodhall]

Gordon Jago?

He was at QPR at the time, and putting together the side that finished runners-up in 1976.

[TopDeck113]

Gordon Jago?

Managed the best side QPR ever had.  Just missed out on a league title.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Gordon Jago?

QPR manager

I remember being severely underwhelmed by Saunders. There was talk of player revolt at Man City, and Vic had been popular.

[villan from luton]

When it comes to showing my football knowledge credentials, may I own up to being one of the 98% that didn't want Ron Saunders as Villa manager.  Neither did I think Peter Withe was a good signing at the time he signed.  Brilliant me.

We may not agree on some things, but the signing of Withe was a disgrace

[luke95]

7 clubs can match or better it , that makes us 8th Mid table as I said .

As for cup finals & semi finals .... Great for a day out , but not so good when you lose them .

So everyone is midtable apart from Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Man City.... you're talking out of your arse, we've also finished top 10 twice as often as out of it, but you ignored that part too. Cup Finals, yeah who cares.....

Yep

We very very rarely finish in top 6, finished above 6th only once in the premier league . Top table clubs finish at top end of the table season after season after season. We don't & haven't for yrs . Certainly not in my life time .

[Legion]

How was it a disgrace?

[dave.woodhall]

Yep

We very very rarely finish in top 6, finished above 6th only once in the premier league . Top table clubs finish at top end of the table season after season after season. We don't & haven't for yrs . Certainly not in my life time .

Eh?

[Lastfootstamper]

...twice in the top four in the PL.

[TopDeck113]

When it comes to showing my football knowledge credentials, may I own up to being one of the 98% that didn't want Ron Saunders as Villa manager. Neither did I think Peter Withe was a good signing at the time he signed.  Brilliant me.

A lad in my year at school got a letter published in either the Mail or Argus, can't remember which, containing the sort of uninformed bluster that only a fifteen year-old can manage saying exactly the same.  I have to admit that most of us, still mourning one Andy Gray, tended to agree.

[PeterWithesShin]

We've finished 2, 4th and 5th in the PL. Or do two of them not count like finals and semi-finals don't?